The music streaming platform is down and won't let you hear music and podcasts. We look at how you can find out about its status and problems.

Billboard Japan caught up with Hadley, Spotify's Global Head of Music Partnerships & Audience, during his visit to Japan for the inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN.

Spotify has a new CHRO: Anna Lundström. Joining the music and podcasting giant in 2016, Lundström has held a variety of roles at the company, and previously served as the VP of HR. She also played a crucial role masterminding the company’s remote work strategy, otherwise known as “ work from anywhere .”

All users can now test reels on non-followers and connect Spotify to their Notes status.

Spotify is experiencing issues, which appear to be causing some users to be unable to use the music streaming platform. At just after 2:15 p.m. ET, we saw huge spikes in Down Detector reports for Spotify. While the music streamer hasn't commented on the outage yet, we can't help but wonder if the ongoing issues with Google Cloud could be connected.

SiriusXM inked a pact with Trevor Noah for his “What Now?” interview podcast, giving the media company exclusive ad-sales rights to video and audio versions of the show. Noah, former host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,

In her new role, Lundström oversees all aspects of the company’s human resources department, including people strategy, and managing a workforce of 7,500 employees across 180 markets. And her appointment comes at an exciting time for Spotify: the company celebrated its first full year of profitability since it was founded in 2008.

Despite the Biden White House urging Big Tech to censor ‘misinformation,’ Rogan said his podcast audience ‘grew by 2 million subscribers in a month.’